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Critical literacy in the information age: Lies, damn lies and
conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-23, 05:51 authored by Rosemary CallinghamRosemary CallinghamAs the authority of teachers and parents wanes, students increasingly turn to various media for advice and information. What skills, knowledge and understandings are needed for students to sort fact from fiction? How do students make sense of information presented in diagrams, charts or graphs? What meaning can be attached to advertising claims on television? Of more importance to teachers is the question of how we teach students to take a critical, questioning stance to the information they access. In this paper, media sources are used as a basis for developing appropriate teaching approaches to scaffold students’ thinking towards critical understanding. Beware! This approach uses numbers.
History
Publication title
Proceedings of the Multiliteracies & English Teaching K-12 In The Age Of Information & Communication Technologies ConferenceEditors
D. HansfordPagination
1 - 8ISBN
1 86389 938 3Department/School
Faculty of EducationPublisher
Australian Literacy Educators' Association NSWPlace of publication
CD ROMEvent title
Multiliteracies & English Teaching K-12 In The Age Of Information & Communication TechnologiesEvent Venue
NSW, AustraliaDate of Event (Start Date)
2004-11-24Date of Event (End Date)
2004-11-27Rights statement
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